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Australian nuncio picked for Holy Land post

Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
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Archbishop Adolfo Yllana, then-apostolic nuncio to Australia, poses for a photo with Pope Francis at the Vatican in this April 9, 2015, file photo. PHOTO: CNS/L’Osservatore Romano

Pope Francis has appointed Australia’s apostolic nuncio Archbishop Adolfo Yllana as the apostolic nuncio to Israel and Cyprus and apostolic delegate in Jerusalem and Palestine.

On 3 June the Vatican announced the transfer of the 73-year-old who has been nuncio to Australia since 2015.

In the Middle East, Archbishop Yllana will succeed Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, who was named nuncio to India in March.

Born in Naga City, Philippines, on 6 February 1948, Archbishop Yllana worked in seminaries in the Philippines before being sent to Rome to study canon law and civil law. In Rome, he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, which trains Vatican diplomats.

After completing his doctorate in canon law and civil law, Archbishop Yllana was posted to West Africa in 1984, where he served the church in Ghana, Togo and Benin. He continued his service with postings in Sri Lanka, Turkey, Lebanon, Hungary and Taiwan.

In 2001, St. John Paul II named him an archbishop and nuncio to Papua New Guinea. He was nuncio to Pakistan and then to Congo before being sent to Australia.

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